What happened? Where did it all go wrong for one of Hollywood’s most happy-go-lucky weed activists? Probably at the outset. Redditors take the literal meaning of AMA seriously–they expect to be able to ask the subject anything. That’s just what a Reddit user with the screen name “AndyRooney” chose to do:

I swear this is a true story. I went to a high school in LA and you crashed our prom after party (Universal Hilton). You ended up taking the virginity of a girl named Roseanna. You didn’t call her afterwards. She cried a lot. Do you remember any of this and can confirm or have you been so knee deep in hollywood pooty for so long that this qualifies as a mere blip? (…)

“AndyRooney” appears to have edited the question to add additional commentary but Mr. Harrelson’s response to the original query, while perhaps predictable and understandable, was a good example of the sort of answer that is like raking nails across a chalkboard to any long-time Redditor:

Reddit user “bersh” commented, “Should change this AMA to AMAAR (Ask Me Anything About Rampart),” and Mr. Harrelson’s answer to that statement didn’t help at all:

For further fun times you can check out all the instances where Woody Harrelson/some publicist answered questions by following links from this post in the original Q&A thread.

For anyone not inclined to go poking through the many Reddit threads and associated (often hilarious) images surrounding the Woody Harrelson AMA Debacle of ’12, a Redditor using the handle “Dulljack” may have summed up the situation fairly well with the following imagined bit of dialogue:

Agent- “Hey, there is this website called Readdit where we can pitch Woody’s new movie! Every person on it is in our target demographic!!!”
Publicist – “Sweet, let’s go piss them off!”EPIC HIGH FIVE!

What’s funny is that Reddit is owned by CONDE NAST. For a publishing/media corporation operated website, the idiots there sure did act like it was their special precious little place on the internet that was being “exploited”. Yeah, it was kind of a crappy “AMA”, but it was likely Woody not understanding the difference between an AMA that some publicist tossed him into and any other of the million press junkets/radio and tv calls he has arranged for him every day that he has to plow through repeating the same thing over and over and over.

If his name wasn’t a recognized one, Reddit would have just ruined his life. Imagine joe-schmoe being libeled all across every corner of the internet because of a poor “interview” so that EVERY girlfriend, potential mate, employer, family member, random person that ever looked you up found this supposedly hideous story about how you “had sex with a chick and didn’t call her back” (OH NO! Woody is a man, just like me! How terrible of him!).

They screwed Woody into doing this cause they obviously see him at the top of his game, with a major role in The Hunger Games and his performance in Rampart was one of the biggest Oscar contenders of 2011, and they wanted him to suffer a big downfall with a bunch of idiotic bloggers, who really acted like a bunch of bullies. This was not, in any means, his fault.

Woody harrelson is one of the best actors of all time so idk why u people would be attacking him for no reason, he has limited time when he does that stuff and the point is to promote his movie so why would he waste time talking about something stupid that someone is just trying to bring down a celeb cause they had that dream but could never do it do they start reporting about them to try to ruin them all...get a life, WOODY H is the king bitches

Yeah well, his career's best performance happens to be in my favorite TV show at the moment, True Detective. So I could care less about some movie marketing stunt he pulled off. They're in this to make money, and make money they shall.

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